Detroit schools seek volunteers to teach reading

The Detroit Public Schools district is seeking volunteers to spend 100,000 hours teaching students to read.

Emergency
Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the Detroit Parent Network on
Saturday that he'll announce the new initiative on Monday in response
to dismal test scores that recently were released.

Bobb says
educators want to "create a reading revolution" in Detroit. The Detroit
Free Press reports Bobb made the comments to the Detroit Parent
Network's annual breakfast at the Westin Book Cadillac hotel.

Bobb has asked state officials to add academic control of the struggling district to his current duties.